One Year Anniversary Cruise =)

Me and Matt have been married a YEAR ~ONE WHOLE YEAR!!!~ =) =) Can you believe it??! I still can't. January 10th, 2009 we were sealed in the Mesa, AZ Temple. Cruises were sooo dang cheap, we decided to celebrate our one year anniversary by going on another one. We stayed in San Diego for 3 days before cruising with Carnival to Catalina Island and Ensenada, Mexico. It was a 4 night 5 day cruise. =)

This cruise was ALOT different than our first one. The boat was rockin' back and forth and side to side the ENTIRE time. =( Like pretty bad. The last night there, I freaked out in the middle of the night thinking that we were underwater or something and that we were never going to make it back HOME =( Dramamine was my BEST FRIEND this cruise- except it made me sleepy and tired. The food was ok... not as good as I had remembered it. We enjoyed the 24/7 self serve ice-cream and loved dessert time at night because the chocolate melting lava cake with vanilla ice-cream was SINFULLY DELICIOUS!!! =)

The boat was about 12 years old with red and peach rooms. So 2010!! =( The last night that we were there, we found out that Carnival had let vicitms of Katrina live on this boat for 6 months. I mean I think that that's great and everything, but I wish that we would have been informed before.

Our last stop was Ensenda, Mexico. Dirty DIRTY place. =( Rocky Point, Mexico is better than this place. We stepped off the boat and were stopped by little kids begging for money. Sad. =( We literally walked around for 20 minutes, looked at each other and were like "What the HECK?! What are we doing? We don't want to be here??" And back to the boat we went. We were able to lay out and relax some.

Needless to say, we won't be going on any more cruises with Carnival ever again. We would like to go on a DIFFERENT cruise line and go SOMEWHERE else besides Mexico. Like the Bahama's or Costa Rica or some where tropical like that. =)

Don't get me wrong. I loved having the time off and spending it with Matthew. But, we were BOTH ready to get off of that dang boat and get back home to sleep in our own comfy beds, get back to eatin' really good food without things moving back and forth.


Here are just SOME of the pictures from our lovely trip:
~~*San Diego, CA TEMPLE =)*~~

~~*It was breathtaking*~~


~~*Gas Lamp in San Diego, CA*~~


~~*pinkberry=DELICIOUSNESS*~~



~~*We were in love with this yogurt place. So in LOVE <3 that we went there 3 times in 24 hours!!!*~~

~~*GETTIN' down on some pinkberry =)*~~

~~*P.F. Changs dinner in San Diego, CA for our ONE Year Anniversary*~~




~~*Catalina Island, CA*~~





~~*OUR ROOM*~~


~~*I ♥ SUSHI*~~

~~*OUR little Elephant waitin' for us in our ROOM*~~

~~*He is sooo HANDSOME =)*~~



~~*We rented a tandum bike and rode around Catalina Island=)*~~






~~*Our cute bike =)*~~









~~*24/7 Self Serve Ice-Cream =)*~~

Christmas Eve & New Years Eve 2009

Christmas Eve Paul & Raquel graciously had us all over for dinner and some rock band =) Christmas Day we went over to my parents house for a yummy breakfast and then opened presents afterwards. The day went by way to dang fast. I feel like the older I get, Christmas is just whipping on by..... it's sad. =( Most of my sisters have kids now, so instead of us just all being able to hang out for the remainder of the day, it was time to put kids down for naps or head over to hang with other families for Christmas. It was our first Christmas being married and we enjoyed being able to spend time together of course and opening gifts from each other. Matt went over board this year.... WE had a limit of $50.... I of course stuck to it, he didn't... which I'm not complaining.... =) I received some fun gifts =) =)


~~*ADORABLE AVA*~~

~~*PRECIOUS PRESLEY*~~



~~*We painted our nails RED for Christmas... wasn't planned. Guess GREAT minds think alike*~~

~~*She is way too pretty*~~


~~*Aubree & her Ava*~~

~~*Justine & Presley*~~

~~*Lookin' WAY too GOOD for being 8 months preggers*~~

~~*Lovin' my sisters <3*~~

We went over to my Aunt Ann's & Pat's beautiful remodeled house in Gilbert for New Years Eve 2009. WE all had a BLAST stuffing our faces and playin' games. We stayed over at her house until 2 am. It's tradition that we go over there every New Years Eve and we all just LOVE it!!! <3 We missed Paul, Raquel, Craig and Amy. Hopefully, next year we can all get together!!! =)